Lifelong criminal tries to put prison behind him

EDITOR'S NOTE _ To report this story, AP correspondent Ben Dobbin visited Eddie Williams in prison a year ago and met him periodically since then to track his progress.

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ROCHESTER, New York (AP) _ On a rare visit to his childhood home, Eddie Williams is 16 again, peering down a shotgun barrel as he crouches in the kitchen doorway. The intruder then swivels and shoots, and Williams sees his mother, a pastor's widow, tumble face down on the yellow linoleum floor.

"I was never scared, just …